To: Comrade Premier Mehemet Selim. From: Arbeitsdirektor der Alster Union, Protector of Beringa, Enforcer of the Tanner Zone, First Sea Lord of the Kaiserflotte, Emancipator of the Sigmas, Defender of the Oppressed, Hammer of the Volk, unanimously elected Cell Lord of the Five Cells, eternal servant of the royal line. Subject: Offer of formal Armistice.
Zdravstvujtye, as-salaam 'alaykum, my once longtime friends.
We welcome the ascension of the field marshal to the premiership. If he proves as capable a commander as he does a warrior, then the future of the trans-sirian blue collar revolution will be kept under a firm glove.
I am Hansel Garen, labour director for the Alsterian Labour Union. I have been, for just over a year, your enemy. Our conflict was never one of ideology, as much as third parties saw fit to portray us in one another’s eyes. Conservatives used us to wave a banner, globalists turned us against each other. The Federalists used the opportunity to burnish plaques to the Revolution’s failure.
Posterity demands truth. Not these manufactured silences.
We… were… founded, to avoid the certainty of another war between a pseudo-alliance and a resurrected coalition – to undo the globalist lie. Our failure is the record of history. Still men and women are thrust upon each other at the whims of the particularists. The cycle of violence feeds those who would profit from the manufacture of weapons, a cycle – capitalist agriculture stuffing nutrients enough to turn babies into the fodder for a new mouth – the cannons of cooperate adventurism. Monopolies are everywhere. The wealthy escape whilst the poor are taxed and rot in industrial prisons. There are many wrongs to be undone.
Conflict between the Red Hessians and the Unioners began not because we disagreed on the wrongs proliferating around us, but because we differed on solutions. It is a result of the separate tierings of our societies. For us, we believed that economic motivation could only come from the encouragement of historical traditions. You, yourselves, have done the same, drawing inspiration from the final revolution of Sol. Our own cause draws its water from the Imperial Labour act. The politics of an empire, yes, but one where the centralised government was forced beholden to the proletariat, where empowered worker’s councils wielded direct influence in the organisation of the state and remained more powerful through their popular spirit than the corporations that overpowered them under the false Republic. In truth, it does not matter to us if there is a Bundestag, or a Reichstag, or a Duma. All that matters is the restoration of the people’s dignity, the poplar right to gainful, honourable employment – an enlightened regime incorruptible by globalist, false-democratic oligarchies. That is our sole agenda. Yes, we could be blamed for drawing upon the resources of the revanchist right to do so - but they themselves are victims of the same sociological forces, and, in time, even they can be rallied to the trade unionist cause, when they see the success of our agenda.
We dance with knives, yes. But guile are our tools, just as brutal passion is the way of the Red Hessians. Our disagreement was founded on the idea that all members of the revolution in the Rhein should bow their heads to the Hesse block – is it not the true principles of socialism that we are all equal? That we are not estrangable from each other, but are united in our common red banner, our hammer, that can be swung only with the force of many arms, pulling as one? Our fear that the Hesse have manipulated the lot of us has been, violently, reassessed. The Hessians are no longer capable of assassinations against our leadership as they once were in the years prior. I live in fear no longer. The war has... sanitised... the Unioners. We have become stronger, more true in ourselves. Yet this cannot continue unabated - brother cannot kill brother till the whole house lies empty and bloodstained.
This fear is resolved. The conflict has achieved the aspirations both sides desired. For the Union, we no longer feel eclipsed within our own homeland, or as if our agendas are simply secondary. The Hesse, by contrast, have learnt a valuable lesson in regards to the consequences of estranging common comrades. As to the Coalition itself – we were never rivals of the Duma. We are all victors.
The bloodshed must stop. Not immediately – too many minds have been poisoned for miracles, but slowly. We are prepared to drop arms, and declare the conflict concluded. No side has made significant headway against the other – besides, the Sirius of today is not the Sirius of a year ago. Far more significant threats proliferate in the independent and core worlds. A new conflict has begun against the forces of Globalism in the Sigma worlds, one that the Union must devote its revolutionary focus upon. The narrative must be set correct, lest history write all of us into its backpages.
With the disappearance of Heinrich, the Coalition needs an ally within the Rhein with which it shares a common ideological root. Form truce with me, Premier. Let us show the universe that socialism is not yet dead in this cosmos, despite our particularities.
I will not commit myself to history as the Arbeitsdirektor who undermined the Volksrevolt, Premier. My bases, my goods, my services, my smuggling supply chain, are yours, should you need them. For now, let us commit to counting and entombing the dead. We may need their blessing for what life will bring next.
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From: Field MarshalPremier Mehmed Selim.
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Privyet.
I had a feeling some sort of offer would eventually come from your movement's likes. And, to be perfectly honest, I am not sure whether to take your use of native Coalition languages in your greeting as a complement or a very thinly veiled insult. As things currently stand, I am not your comrade in any sense of the word and it is only a few potential pragmatic benefits which stop me short of ignoring this communique entirely.
That, and the hope that buried deep down somewhere in that mad set of beliefs you've constructed that the seed of Socialism and Communism still remains intact and waiting to germinate. Until that time and day comes, you are nothing short of a disgrace to the People's Revolution.
Hypocrasy of the highest order flows through your ranks -- though it would be a bit poor of us to completely denounce Terror, given the needs of our situation, labelling yourself "Defender of the Oppressed" and then proceeding to use such heinous methods as poison gas aboard stations -- which I understand has been an anciently outlawed practice, is quite the affront to any modicum of standards in anyone's eyes.
While you try to fly a red banner, all you have truly done is enforced xenophobic imperialism. In terms of thinking you are still quite reactionary. Your syndicalist system, while fundamentally rooted as a means of socialist economics is tarnished and subverted by your insistence for an aristocratic Kaiser. The People cannot benefit from strong economics, if their efforts are simply channeled into the pockets of corrupt families or corporations after taxes are taken into consideration. At this rate the global capitalists almost do a better job of distributing their wealth!
Then there is the fact you have willingly ostracised yourself so far from those who should be your peers. You cannot claim to be burying the hatchet when you have made our enemies your friends, and alienated yourselves so thoroughly with those who actually represent the People's cause.
If you want to even think of getting a peace, you have a lot of bad apples to "sanitize" still and a lot of insane methods to overhaul. Your "union" is broken and we will gladly see it in the wastebin of history where it belongs until it proves itself otherwise.
Oh, and when you get around to responding to this communique, try not to use such long-winded attempts to impress me. I haven't the time.
To: Comrade Premier Mehemet Selim. From: Arbeitsdirektor der Alster Union, Protector of Beringa, Enforcer of the Tanner Zone, First Sea Lord of the Kaiserflotte, Emancipator of the Sigmas, Defender of the Oppressed, Hammer of the Volk, unanimously elected Cell Lord of the Five Cells, eternal servant of the royal line. Subject: Offer of formal Armistice.
Selim, I am not the Duma. You are new to the premiership, Selim. You have the opportunity for an immediate foreign policy victory at home as the means to cement your position. The generals will note your capacity for expanding the revolution and you have an opportunity to claim victory.
The Kaiser was always, and will forever be, a false-flag. Just as the Stalinists of old Earth raised a false flag of nationalism in the galvanisation of the people. The Union has always considered political wings irrelevant to itself - "left" and "right" are merely trappings founded by the globalists to confuse the socialist order and turn the proletariat against itself. You are well aware of this, Mehemet. However, there will be no scapegoats and this battleship is not the Potemkin. I will not denounce members of my organisation in purge. I have my own legacy to consider and this war against the Hessians has done everything it demanded to. It avenged the assassination of Arbeitsdirektor Petra Abendroth at the hands of the Red Hessians. It proved that we are not a puppet. It proved that we are not simply a conveyance for Hessian Blood Diamonds into the Liberty core worlds, but a true co-equal partner in the volksrevolution - the Hessians know this, now.
Your Hessian allies attempted to enslave us in a manner oppositional to the objectives of the revolution. They attacked us, captain. Heinrich uttered no declaration of war before her forces engaged ours - we smacked them in the mouth. I am still here. Where is the Brigadier-general? Should I have rolled over and died because a madwoman more concerned with polishing her own fighter than expanding the revolution demanded such? We are as anti-corporatist as you yourselves are - we have illustrated as much through both our actions and our words, over and over. We are the oldest revolutionary force within the Rhein. We have persistently challenged the forces of neo-corporatism and attempted to filliate ourselves with causes that still support the ancient labour compacts.
I am here because I believe a simple feud over expansionist blackmarketeering should not strategically disadvantage the entire spread of socialism ideals throughout the Sirius sector.
I will be brief. We seek peace with the Red Hessians. However, we cannot achieve such without the support of the Coalition. Détente will remain mutually advantageous and any other action will remain morally henious. We are prepared to pay the Coalition reparations should such capitalist metrics mean anything to you.
As for why we even contemplate giving the would-be Kaiser rope with which to hang himself, consider this quote from the communist manifesto:
"“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations."
The Bourgeois is the anathema we fight. We will fight it to the last. Not having our comrades (I do not use the term loosely, for, in war or peace, this will be what I consider you), assisting each other, will bastardise the struggle and provide the Capitalist lie credence. And for its destruction, I would even co-operate with the Hessians, too.
Consider the future, Selim, and if our shared ideals should be a part of it. This will be one of the metrics upon which we will be judged.
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